Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style of letting subordinates pursue policy objective without requireing White House approval of every detail should be completely discarded. This sort of the management has allowed officials in other government departments to surge ahead with important programs. In contrast, President Carter was excessively concerned with detail. This bogged his cabinet down and, to a degree, contributed to the failure of desirable initiatives...
...with the law; as the chief legal adviser to the President, Meese must bear blame for that. But Shultz says he will not resign, and replacing him would cause more turmoil in foreign policy. Weinberger and Meese are old friends of Reagan's from California days. Replacing lower-ranking Cabinet members unconnected to Iranscam would prove nothing, though it might serve to energize an Administration that suffers from intellectual lameness...
...master, let me tell you." North frequently played up to his superiors. In a note to McFarlane, he talked about the "tremendous pressure" on Poindexter, saying, "My part in this was easy compared to his. I only had to deal with our enemies. He has to deal with the cabinet...
...August 1985 Israeli arms shipments to Iran and concluded that McFarlane "clearly" had Reagan's "full support" to supply those weapons to Iran, even though he may have lacked "explicit prior approval." As National Security Adviser, McFarlane "appeared caught between a President who supported the initiative and the Cabinet officers who strongly opposed it." While he made efforts to keep those officers and Reagan informed, he "was not always successful." At the same time, he tried to be protective of the President. In November, he drafted an account of the affair that sought to "gild the President's motives...
Angry critics attacked the measure as a witch-hunt and even compared it to Nazi pogroms, but the Bavarian Cabinet last week pushed through what may be the most sweeping ruling to detect AIDS carriers adopted anywhere in the world. In addition to examining prostitutes and drug addicts, Bavaria will give AIDS tests to applicants for government jobs and foreigners coming from countries outside the European Community who seek residency permits. The new edict, moreover, empowers the Bavarian police to round up for examination anyone suspected of carrying the AIDS virus...